Research Papers

Publications


Quantitative Research Assessment: Using Metrics Against Gamed Metrics.” With John PA Ioannidis, Internal and Emergency Medicine (2023) 1-9

In Defense of Quantitative Metrics in Research Assessment.” With John PA Ioannidis, PLOS Biology 21.12 (2023): e3002408

Can biased polls distort electoral results? Evidence from the lab. With Aris Boukouras, Will Jennings and Lunzheng Li. European Journal of Political Economy, 102383. GitHub - lunzheng-li/biased-poll-replication-package 

Is Formalism the Key to Resolving the Generalizability Crisis? An Experimental Economics Perspective”. Commentary on "The generalizability crisis" by Tal Yarkoni. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45 (2022).

When is Evidence Actionable? Assessing Whether a Program is Ready to Scale”. With John PA Ioannidis and Fabio Tufano. Chapter in Book “The Scale-up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy: Why interventions lose impact at scale and what we can do about it. 2021.

Anchoring in Economics: A Meta-Analysis of Studies on Willingness-To-Pay and Willingness-To-Accept.” With  Lunzheng Li and Constantine Sedikides. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021

Evaluating Solutions to the Problem of False Positives.” With Thomas Gall, Research Policy 48.2, 2019: 506-515.

To Replicate or Not To Replicate? Exploring Reproducibility in Economics through the Lens of a Model and a Pilot Study”. With Fabio Tufano and John A. List. The Economic Journal. 2017 Oct 1;127(605).

“The Credibility Crisis in Research: Can Economics Tools Help?” With Thomas Gall and JPA Ioannidis. PLoS biology 15.4, 2017: e2001846.

“The Research Reproducibility Crisis and Economics of Science.” with Fabio Tufano. The Economic Journal. 2017 Oct 1;127(605).

“How to Make Experimental Economics Research More Reproducible: Lessons from Other Disciplines and a New Proposal.”  With Fabio Tufano and John A. List.  In  Cary Deck, Enrique Fatas, and Tanya Robenblat (eds) Research In Experimental Economics, Special Volume on Replication,  2015, 215-230.  

One Swallow Does not Make a Summer: Reply to Kataria.” With Fabio Tufano and John A. List. Econ Journal Watch 11(1), 2014, pp. 11-16

An Approximate Dual-Self Model and Paradoxes of Choice under Risk.” With Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine.  Journal of Economic Psychology 41, 2014, pp. 55-67.

Selective Revelation of Public Information and Self-Confirming Equilibrium.” International Journal of Game Theory 43(4), 2014,  pp. 991-1008.

One Swallow Does not Make a Summer: New Evidence on Anchoring Effects.” With Fabio Tufano and John A. List. American Economic Review 104(1), 2014, pp. 277-290.

On the Robustness of Anchoring Effects in WTP and WTA Experiments.” With Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 4(2), 2012, pp. 131-145.

Campaign Contributions as a Commitment Device.” Public Choice 139(3), 2009, pp. 301-315.

 

Working Papers


‘Fear of the Light’? Transparency does not reduce the effectiveness of nudges. A data-driven review.” With Hendrik Bruns, Adrien Fillon and Yavor Paunov.  University of Southampton Discussion Paper.

Alysandratos, Theodore, Aristotelis Boukouras, Sotiris Georganas, and Zacharias Maniadis. "'Identify the Expert': an Experimental Study in Economic Advice." Available at SSRN 4369623 (2023).

The Expert and the Charlatan: an Experimental Study on Economic Advice.” With Theodoros Alysandratos, Aristotelis Boukouras, and Sotiris Georganas. University of Southampton Discussion Paper. 

Aggregate Information and the Centipede Game: a Model and Some Exploratory Evidence.” University of Southampton Discussion Paper.

"The Weighting of Personal Experience: an Experimental Measurement", With Josh Miller. IGIER Working paper 452